Jenny On the Spot

Drafted on January 24, 2006

It has been nearly a year since we bought our property. The home-building process is a stinker, but I'm thinkin' I'm going to love the finished product. Many said it would go like this. They were right,

There is wonderful news these days - this has been a super busy and productive week in the life of our new home. We now have power at the site, so the framers don't need a generator for power! The basement will remain mostly unfinished - but it is framed in. Currently, the floor of the basement is still mud, but the main floor is all framed in! I don't know how long it will be until the concrete is gets poured down below, but the puddles have mostly soaked in and the mud is becoming less sticky. Word on the street is plumbers will be there on Saturday.

Last week was good too, but I didn't know that going into last week. Our builder finally got their first draw. I cannot begin to communicate the horror that befell us (the builder, our broker, us,) as we made our way to the “first draw”.  That Monday, the construction department of our lender met a very unhappy woman (me). I told the poor fellow on the other end, “I want you to write in my file, ’She is livid. LI. VID.'”Â  The payment was made the following day.

A major marker was reached today - the roof trusses for the garage were delivered! Woop Woop! It was so cool to see the big truck with all that lumber - all put together. It was an “oversize load”, so we (OK, “we” didn't, but for time I'll just keep using “we”) had to pull up a tree and part of a fence. Our new neighbors were so kind to let us pull up the tree, we hope it will transplant, hope, hope, hope, very kind people. If they had not - the rumor floating was we'd need to fork over some dough to have the trusses helicoptered in. Like, I said - beautiful, kind people! (I think I need to make them some cookies). When the trusses were lifted the main parts to the top of the garage, it was like watching a beautiful sunrise.

As we stand today, the roof trusses for the house will arrive next week. I'm so happy I either want to dance around my kitchen or eat some chocolate. Maybe I'll dance around the kitchen eating chocolate. Dark chocolate, of course,